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The proposal required a majority to receive the committee’s approval and was thus rejected, pushing the matter to a full plenary session of the parliament.
However, in a surprising move, Ireland’s Fine Gael MEPs confirmed that they would not vote outright against the law today, pushing instead for amendments that would scale down the ambition of the original proposal but stop short of killing the law.Īt committee stage, the 88 MEPs of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) committee were split down the middle, with 44 in favour of the law and 44 against. The European People’s Party, the political grouping that Fine Gael sits in and the EU’s largest political grouping, withdrew from the committee negotiations at the end of May and had campaigned for a vote against the law. MEPs disagreed strongly over the last few months about how ambitious the targets should be and the measures that should be included, vocally nailing their flags to masts in a high-profile debate that has come just one year ahead of the next EU elections. MEPs are voting now on amendments /lADFFqQpMb- Lauren Boland JLauren Boland / Twitter The moment in the EU Parliament when a vote to reject the Nature Restoration Law outright was defeated
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